Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
b77	Primeval sky close to earth	Originally the sky was close to the earth, then it has risen up
c5b	Animal-scouts	During the creation of the world or after the world cataclysm animals run around making the earth big, reporting about its condition or they are sent to report the size of the growing earth
e30	The make-believe spouse of wood	Person does not have a spouse, uses wooden fakes for his wife or her husband
e32	People born from trees	First people are born by trees or come out of a tree, flower, reed
e9	The mysterious housekeeper	Person observes traces of some activity that takes place in his (rare: her) house in his (her) absence and then takes by surprise the responsible one
f16	Men and women: exchange of anatomical characteristics	Initially men possessed women's biological traits and vice versa (beard, menses, breasts, bearing children)
f25	Origin of menses: girl smeared with blood	Woman is smeared with blood or red paint. Since then women menstruate
f29	Girl sits on the ground	A girl or young woman who is usually occupied with domestic work (is cooking, weaving, etc.) sits on the ground and copulates with a penis-like creature that crawls from below into her vagina
f30	Snake paramour	A woman or a girl takes a snake, an eel (i.e. Pacific snake-eel), a lizard, or a worm for husband or paramour. People kill or badly injure him, the woman and/or her progeny or the woman herself is transformed into snake. Cf. motif k76b: the snake-husband becomes and remains a handsome man
f33	Water creature paramour	Certain woman or a group of women take for paramour a big water animal (caiman, otter, sea-lion, whale, anaconda; rare: water bird, crab), water spirit or monster. Husbands, brothers or (adoptive) children kill or maim paramour and/or (sometimes) the woman
j47	Pursuer falls from height	Person ascends to the sky (rare: descends from the sky; ascends the cliff) by a rope, a ladder, etc. Another person tries to follow him or her but the rope (the ladder) is broken or severed
j58	The arrow ladder	Persons shoot arrows (darts) which hit each other’s end forming a chain (rope, ladder). Persons climb by this chain to the sky or (rare) across an obstacle
j59	Following arrow to get to the sky	To climb to the sky, person must first to shoot an arrow that reaches the sky and sticks to it
l42	Hero carried to ogre’s home	An ogre or ogress catches a person and brings him to his or her home where he or she plans to cook and eat him. The hero escapes

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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Koyukon
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Shared motifs (from a list of 10 less used): 4 Tradition: Paresi
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